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Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954 » (New Edition)

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Authors: Davison M. Douglas
ISBN-13: 9780521607834, ISBN-10: 0521607833
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 2005
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Davison M. Douglas

Davison M. Douglas is the Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at the William and Mary School of Law where he teaches courses in American constitutional law and history. From 1997-2004, he served as Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William and Mary. Douglas received a Ph.D. in American history (1992), a law degree (1983), and master's degree in religion (1983) from Yale University. He has written several articles and books dealing with American constitutional history, including Reading, Writing, and Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools (University of North Carolina Press, 1995), Redefining Equality (Oxford University Press, 1998) (edited, with Neal Devins), and articles in the Michigan Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Texas Law Review, and the UCLA Law Review. He has lectured on American constitutional law and history at universities throughout the United States, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Book Synopsis

Examining why any northern communities engaged in school segregation and how this was challenged.

Table of Contents

1Introduction1
2The struggle for black education in the antebellum north12
3Legislative reform : banning school segregation, 1865-189061
4The spread of northern school segregation, 1890-1940123
5Responding to the spread of northern school segregation : conflict within the black community, 1900-1940167
6The democratic imperative : the campaign against northern school segregation, 1940-1954219
7Conclusion274

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